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    Illinois Staats-Zeitung (Illinois State Newspaper) was one of the most well-known German-language newspapers of the United States; it was published in...
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    small town radio stations such as WOKZ in Alton, Illinois; and as an intern at KMOX in St. Louis. Staats began announcing professional baseball with the...
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    Abraham Lincoln (category Illinois postmasters)
    a national political presence. In May 1859, Lincoln purchased the Illinois Staats-Anzeiger, a German-language newspaper that was consistently supportive;...
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    Lorenzo Brentano (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    became editor of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and eventually served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois. Born as Lorenz...
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    title role in Casey, Crime Photographer. Staats Cotsworth Jr. was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Staats and Dorothy (Bodley) Cotsworth. He had a...
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    Emil Dietzsch (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    contributed to English and German language publications such as the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Puck, and Um Die Welt. Politically, Dietzsch was a Republican...
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    Joseph Brucker (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    ventures, he was hired in 1894 as managing editor of the renowned Illinois Staats-Zeitung by its owner, A.C. Hesing to replace his son Washington, who...
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    Charles Francis Pietsch (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    he was secretary, treasurer, and general business manager of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung (founded April 21, 1848), until he left in 1899. In 1904, he...
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    Anton C. Hesing (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    the second half of the 19th Century. The long-time publisher of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and political boss of the pro-liquor wing of the Republican...
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    The New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, nicknamed "The Staats", claims to be the leading German-language weekly newspaper in the United States and is one of the...
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  • Hermann Kriege (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    he settled in Chicago, where he became editor of the newly-formed Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a position he held until 1849, when he again returned to New...
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    are twelve or more... the best... being... the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung. The Illinois Staats-Zeitung has nearly as large a circulation, and the Milwaukee...
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    Hermann Raster (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    anti-temperance political boss who served as chief editor and part-owner of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a widely circulated newspaper in the German language in the...
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    George Schneider (banker) (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    American journalist and banker who served as editor-in-chief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. He was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln as the United...
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    Adolf Wiesner (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    After the war ended, he went to Chicago and worked briefly for the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. When the general amnesty was declared in Germany, he decided...
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    Wilhelm Rapp (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    general. Rapp declined, instead moving to Chicago to work for the Illinois Staats-Zeitung. In 1891, upon the death of his friend, chief editor Hermann...
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    Washington Hesing (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    editor and political figure primarily known for his ownership of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and his term as postmaster of Chicago during the second term...
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    newspapers, such as the New Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the Anzeiger des Westens in St. Louis, and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung in Chicago, promoted middle-class...
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    Herald, Westport, 1898–1951 Florida Deutsches Echo, Miami, 1926–? Illinois Staats-Zeitung, Chicago, 1848–1922 Belleviller Zeitung, Belleville, 1849–1917...
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    Garrick Theater (Chicago) (category 1891 establishments in Illinois)
    Opened in 1891, the Schiller Theater was originally funded by former Illinois Staats-Zeitung publisher Anton C. Hesing (1823-1895) and other German investors...
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    List of people from Chicago (category Lists of people from Illinois)
    lived in Chicago, Illinois. For a similar list organized alphabetically by last name, see the category page People from Chicago, Illinois. Michael Hudson...
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    Friedrich Hecker (category People from St. Clair County, Illinois)
    Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment (Old Hecker Regiment). Chicago: Illinois Staats Zeitung. Retrieved February 23, 2012. This article incorporates text...
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  • Cook County, Illinois. Goodspeed Historical Association. p. 569. ISBN 9780608368948. "The Opposition in the 17th Ward". Illinois Staats-Zeitung. 1874-10-27...
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    in St. Louis, Missouri, and, along with the Westliche Post and the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, one of the three most successful German-language papers in...
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    LeRoy (Autumn 1968). "Lincoln's 1858 Visit to Pittsfield, Illinois". Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society. 61 (3): 350–364. Archived from the...
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    Theodore Brentano (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    years. In 1899 Brentano became the new treasurer and president of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, the newspaper of which his father was editor during the Civil...
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    Caspar Butz (category Illinois Staats-Zeitung people)
    held several positions in a number of publications, including the Illinois Staats-Zeitung and the Michigan Tribune, the latter of which he briefly owned...
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    Chicago, another independent German labor paper, and contributed to the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a famous German Republican daily of the Midwest. He took part...
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  • founded by German Americans Boss Hesing and Hermann Raster of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, who temporarily split with the Republican Party due to its...
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    newspapers of the region in the late 19th century was the German language Illinois Staats-Zeitung, owned by former Cook County Sheriff A.C. Hesing, who was also...
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